Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/286220 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y la Empresa [ISSN:] 1886-516X [Volume:] 31 [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 3-16
Publisher: 
Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla
Abstract: 
The aim of this paper is to examine how people perceive correspondence between the 5-item Likert scale and the percentage scale (the LS-PS correspondence thereinafter). Are all five items of the Likert scale equidistant? Do people use the same scale when evaluating different objects? Are men and women different? Are people from different countries / cultures different? The method of the study was a questionnaire with 661 participating respondents altogether from the Czech Republic, Ecuador, and France. The results indicate that the 5-item Likert scale is neither equidistant, nor symmetrical. Furthermore, there are (highly) statistically significant differences in the LS-PS correspondence with respect to location, age, or gender of respondents. The results can be used as an input for more precise decision-making modeling associated with (fuzzy) linguistic variables.
Subjects: 
decision-making
evaluation
fuzzy linguistic variables
international study
Likert scale
JEL: 
D12
D91
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Document Type: 
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